WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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the pro-war group within Japanese government
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the ruling class in Japanese society
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Japanese pilots who crashed into Allied warships
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the name of the Japanese carrier group at Midway
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Detailed explanation-1: -kamikaze, any of the Japanese pilots who in World War II made deliberate suicidal crashes into enemy targets, usually ships. The term also denotes the aircraft used in such attacks. The practice was most prevalent from theBattle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944, to the end of the war.
Detailed explanation-2: -About 14% of kamikaze attacks managed to hit a ship. The Japanese high command exaggerated the effectiveness of the tokko attacks, claiming six aircraft carriers, one escort aircraft carrier and ten battleships had been sunk.
Detailed explanation-3: -70 Years Later, He Told His Story. Kazuo Odachi is one of the last living members of a group never meant to survive. He wants to remind Japan that before its modern success came the sacrifices of the young pilots who gave their lives.